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> Surely a person driving 18 people will emit less than each person driving themselves? No. A person driving themselves does not create any _incremental_ CO2 e
by cyberax 2mo ago
> Surely a person driving 18 people will emit less than each person driving themselves?
No. A person driving themselves does not create any _incremental_ CO2 emissions. They don't need a dedicated full-time position to do the driving.
> There is countless research showing buses emit less than individual cars per passenger per km, self-driving or not.
Care to share it? I actually read through most of highly cited articles in this area, and it's not at all so clear-cut. For example: https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint
- NicuCalcea 2mo agoThe very source you are providing is pretty clear to me. For cars, only hybrids and EVs are more efficient, and that is because it's comparing electric passenger cars with all buses (most of which still run on fossil fuels). There is no data for electric buses, but it's pretty intuitive to me that they would emit less per passenger kilometre than an electric car.